Spirit Airlines plans to begin service in Milwaukee and Louisville, Kentucky, this summer as the airline looks to a hoped-for travel rebound given positive trends in coronavirus case counts and COVID-19 vaccines.
The budget airline, known for cheap tickets and a pile of fees, will launch flights In Louisville on May 27, with daily nonstop service to and from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida; Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The new Los Angeles flight will be the only nonstop flight from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
“This is probably the best service announcement I’ve made in my career, and I’ve been around for a minute,” Dan Mann, executive director for the Louisville Regional Airport Authority, said at a Tuesday press conference.
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Spirit’s Milwaukee flights begin June 24. The Florida-based airline plans to offer daily service to and from Orlando, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles flight will be the only nonstop flight from Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.
“We’ve had our eye on Milwaukee for a long time, and we’re excited to bring our unique value proposition to the Brew City,” John Kirby, Spirit’s vice president of network planning, said in a statement.
Louisville and Milwaukee are the first new cities announced by Spirit this year but the routes continue airlines’ pandemic travel push. Airlines have been adding a flurry of new destinations and routes aimed at vacationers as business travel is expected to take much longer to recover.
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